Write a one page paper responding to a new article about “civil religion” being enacted in the united states and respond to the media representation of it in the article (look for bias, perspective, and language use).
Students should find one news article related to the topic of the intersection of religion and race in the United States and write a 1-2 page response piece.
The response should briefly summarize the content of the article, and then respond to either its content or its representation of content. That is to say, that students can write either about (#1) the topic, or (#2) the media representation of the topic. For example, a response responding to (#1) might respond to and analyze current challenges to rejections of ‘Civil Religion’ enacted in the toppling of public statues of George Washington and Confederate leaders. A response responding to (#2) would briefly discuss the content of the article, but would focus in detail on the ways in which these statue topplings are being reported in the article – looking for bias, perspective, and language usage. IN THE NEWS ASSIGNMENTS ARE DUE: FRIDAY of WEEK 2 at 11:59pm, turned in through the Canvas LMS page.